Breaking debuted at the Paris Summer Games, while sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding made their second Olympic appearances. Medals were the top goal at the 2024 Olympics, but what else came ...

Skateboarding has made its Olympic debut in Tokyo along with surfing, sport climbing and karate. National skateboarding champion Roxana Howlett, aged 11, told BBC Radio 5 Live what people new to ...

Skateboarding was added to the Tokyo Games lineup as part of a wider initiative to grow the Olympics' appeal with younger audiences, by way of sports that are particularly popular in the host nation.

In speed climbing, a vertical racing event that made its ... marking China's best-ever Olympic skateboarding result. This feat came less than a year after the wunderkind became China's youngest ...

Skateboarding’s Olympic debut delivered exactly what the Games’ organizers had hoped for: a high-adrenaline show of thrills and lots of spills from athletes plugged into younger audiences.

The Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist is back for his second Olympics. Eaton, 23, has cemented himself as skateboarding's top dual threat. Although he attempted to qualify in both street and park for ...

Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. The 900—the skateboarding trick that catapulted Tony Hawk to fame and vert skateboarding into the mainstream in 1999 ...

A pair of 13-year-olds Momiji Nishiya (JPN, right) and Rayssa Leal (BRA, left) took the top-two spots in the women's skateboard street contest when the sport debuted at the Tokyo Olympics.

Team USA skaters reveal how they think becoming an Olympic sport might impact skateboarding's unique culture. View more MARIAH DURAN: This journey to the Olympics has been crazy. I mean ...